Adding an active URL Link within Text Editor

A developer has created a PHP site which sends an automatically generated email to a nominated user. This email contains a link. I notice that in Gmail this link is active and clickable - however in Yahoo mail, this link is inactive and is just text (confirmed by other users).

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How did you send the email? From an email client? If so, you have to use the "Insert hyperlink" feature.
Here's what Thunderbird sent when I just pasted <a href="http://www.mysite.com">mysite.com</a> in the message body:

There are several layers of things going on here. Let me tell you what I have experienced with things like this.

1. There is no accountability in email. Every part of the headers and the message can be bogus. You have no control over what the client email reader does with your message. You cannot control the rendering of your message, nor know whether it has been read with more than a very little certainty.

2. There are many, many email reader programs. They work differently. They render identical data differently. Some of them will render anything that looks like a link in the form of a link.

3. Some people perceive that hyperlinks in email represent a security exposure. It might make sense that Yahoo would look down upon links because anybody still using Yahoo email probably started many years ago and may be an older and unsophisticated user, the gullible kind that would click the "get rich quick" link and get taken to an attack site. (Don't laugh - I have clients who believe everything on the internet)

4. There are basically two types of email messages - plain text and HTML. If you want to send plain text it's pretty easy - you just send a text string in the body of the message. If you want to send HTML (which may give you a better chance of getting your links to be clickable) you can follow the guidelines here (Example #4):http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

5. If you want to simplify your life, consider using a service like ConstantContact.

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